Oops: David Koch's Twitter gaffe at NZ mining disaster

While the rest of the Sunrise team is off spending a week in Hawaii, David Koch is in New Zealand covering the trapped miners disaster — but don't worry, the scene of a tragedy is just as awesome as Waikiki Beach!

While the rest of the Sunrise team is off spending a week in Hawaii, David Koch is in New Zealand covering the trapped miners disaster — but don't worry, the scene of a tragedy is just as awesome as Waikiki Beach!

When fellow Twitterers — including the ABC's Virginia Trivoli — noted that Koch's apparent levity seemed a little, well, odd, the TV personality clarified that his Sunrise colleagues had been tweeting photos from Hawaii, and that he "decided to skip Hawaii to come here [to New Zealand]".

It shouldn't really surprise anyone that Kochie would strike a wrong note at a tragic mining disaster. Remember Beaconsfield?